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Kona* · 3 Jul 2011 at 20:03

Kreeeee said:
Hello all,

My DGN2000 ethernet ports died a while back and I have now completely lost my patience with the O2 pile of crap router.

I will be looking to switch to cable relatively soon so ideally I would like a router compatible with both cable and ADSL2+.

My requirements:

- ASDL2+ and cable support
- Support for an attached shared USB device is a big plus
- Wireless (faster the better, our devices are currently N rated but future compatibility is appreciated)
- Not Netgear
- gigabit ethernet

I'm thinking some model of draytek may be what I'm after.

Cheers

How about a Billion BiPAC 7800N? It ticks all of those boxes apart from the USB device sharing. It has a Broadcom ADSL chipset which plays great with O2/BE DSLAMs. I've had mine a week so far and apart from a minor issue (which is being worked on by Billion) it's great, my sync rate is 300kbps better than before (300kbps more on my already slow 2800kbps line is fantastic) - it's also the first consumer IPv6 compatible router and the firmware is constantly being updated by Billion, despite the hardware being released in '09

Kreeeee · 3 Jul 2011 at 20:14

USB external drive support isn't important really.

ADSL/Cable support, gigabit and wireless are critical.

I was thinking along the lines of a draytek 2830n

Kreeeee · 8 Jul 2011 at 01:29

Ahh Billion... thank you!

This is on a dodgy extension in the bedroom as the master socket is dead. Will BT charge me to repair it? I've not touched it at all and it's the first time I've tried to use it since moving in a year ago

Skidilliplop · 8 Jul 2011 at 10:27

Kreeeee said:
Ahh Billion... thank you!

This is on a dodgy extension in the bedroom as the master socket is dead. Will BT charge me to repair it? I've not touched it at all and it's the first time I've tried to use it since moving in a year ago

If it's beyond the master socket, yes they will. But it's a portion of wee wee to re-run yourself. Been plenty of advisory threads on here with tips on that.
If it's the actual master socket then they should sort that for you as that's their Demarcation point, a la start of their responsibility end of yours.

Also just to be pedantic as required by OcUK folk law - It's not the first consumer router to support IPv6. Linksys routers running tomato and DD-WRT have supported it for a fair while.
Out of the box though, possibly

Kreeeee · 8 Jul 2011 at 10:34

It's definitely the master socket that's dead. It has the yellow ring inside it and it doesn't work even with the faceplate off.

What does it do though? I would have assumed the extension sockets would be connected to it (they're not, no idea where they go actually) but everything else still works without it functioning.

Skidilliplop · 8 Jul 2011 at 14:39

That sounds bizarre. Sounds to me like there's something seriously bodged inside it that's almost bypassing the master socket completely. Was it there when you moved in?

Kreeeee · 8 Jul 2011 at 16:12

Yeah, not touched the lines at all.

Skidilliplop · 8 Jul 2011 at 16:24

Sounds like someone's bastardised the master socket (BT engineers not omitted from this variable entity). You ought to be able to get BT to repair that for you, if you don't fancy doing it yourself. Which if you're a novice at telecoms and it's a total mess already I could totally understand.